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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear’s theory of entrepreneurship with German data
Lechmann, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 1, pp. 59-76
-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (Am Econ Rev 94(2): 208–211, <CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2004</CitationRef …
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25
investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. Copyright Batista and Umblijs.; licensee Springer 2014 …
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment
Bonilla, Claudio A.; Vergara, Marcos - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 329-331
Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence, and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.
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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …
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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment
Vergara, Marcos; Bonilla, Claudio A. - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo - 2012
Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence,and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.
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Top management teams and the performance of entrepreneurial firms
Eisenhardt, Kathleen - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 805-816
This article examines why some entrepreneurial firms succeed while others do not. The focal explanation is top management teams, including several studies that address when and how top management teams are likely to influence entrepreneurial firm performance. There are several insights. First,...
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STRATEGY COMPETENCES AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN THE HUNGARIAN SMEs SECTOR
KURUCZ, ATTILA - In: JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA (2010)
entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competences in SMEs. Underlining two main business fields: cost management and performance …
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